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Print view for any web page with firefox web developer plugin

Not all websites have links to “printable version” like wikipedia. Although many websites have stunning  look, it is really ugly when you try to print them. Some parts of the pages will be missing or the format is totally a mess. Instead of waiting the website owner realize this and prepare printer friendly pages for [...]

Change Pidgin theme on Windows

I’m using Pidgin v2.7 and Windows XP. I’ve tried most of the methods flying on the internet about changing themes for Pidgin, but none of them works. These include using the gtkthemeselector.exe. I noticed the latest Pidgin using a  “%APPDATA%\.purple\gtkrc-2.0″ to control the look and feel once the “GTK+ theme control” plugin is enabled. The [...]

Subversion+websvn on Debian

To get subversion+apache2 work on Debian is not very difficult. Basically including the following steps (ref: this post):

通过Samba在VirtualBox的guest和host间共享目录

Virtualbox支持客户机和宿主机之间共享目录,但是根据版本不同,会有些问题。例如对于3.1.x版本,windows XP host和Debian guest组合下,VBox自己的共享目录(写入)性能极差甚至报错(本人遇到)。其实,在客户机和宿主机之间共享文件的还有一些其他方式,例如可以通过ftp或samba,二者都支持所有操作系统下的共享,但是相比之下samba更具优点,因为在Windows和Linux下都可以把Samba共享目录映射为本地磁盘目录。

Where to download xulrunner-1.8.1.3 (or older version)?

The download link of this version on the Mozilla webpage has broken. But you can find it here.

Control file extensions of Notepad2

By default Notepad2 add a .txt extension to the file name when you save a newly created file. For files already having extensions, this will not be done. However, this is sometimes annoying if you often create files which do not use txt as extension although they are actually plain text files. I think this [...]

Killer apps to tidy up html files and make Ebook

I’ve tried to download many freeware or trial versions in order to convert lots of html files downloaded from internet into some Ebook format, such as chm or pdf. Unfortunately and surprisingly none of them is satisfactory. Some cracked commercial software do exist, but I don’t like to be a victim of Trojan.

Drag URL to Bookmark bar in Firefox 3.5+

After changing to Firefox 3.5, I could not bookmark an URL simply by dragging  and dropping it onto the bookmark bar, which was the way I liked. In fact, this functionality is still there. But only when you know it you will find it’s so simple. This post tells the trick. You just have to [...]

UnFREEz an open source animation GIF maker

Free, single executable with source code. http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/

Python and pizza.py

Pizza.py is a post-processing tool package for lammps – a MD package. I downloaded it and unpacked in a local directory. Each time I have to start it with a command like “python -f abs_path/pizza.py” where the abs_path is the absolute path to pizza.py source directory. However this directory is very long on my computer [...]

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